Field Trips...am I worrying over nothing?

So my daughter (1st grade) is going on her first real field trip to the zoo with school. I cannot be a chaperone - for my own reason, not the teacher's.

So I got an email from a dad of a student asking if he can chaperone the field trip (he sent it to me becuase I am handling volunteers for the PTA "Field Day" event and he got confused - they are a few days apart).

But this got me thinking, what if my daughter (special snowflake I know) got put with a male chaperone? I do not know this man. Makes me really uncomfortable. I emailed the teacher asking if they stay together as a class or not, but I know it will be a while until I hear from her. I do think they go off in small groups with a chaperone based on pics I see on facebook - but not positive.

Does anyone else worry about stuff like this when there is a field trip?

My dh has attended field trips. Heck, twice, I've sent my bil, because he was home from deployment and my kids were over the moon to have him go. I'd have been furious if some mom questioned their ability to chaperone.

My husband would do a great job with a group of children at the zoo. He is very attentive to kids and really gets into it. We took the children's church kids to the zoo last summer, there were ten of them and only two of us. It went fine. You really should be so against a male chaperone. The teacher will probably put boys with him or if he has a daughter it'll be her and her friends or whatever. It's no big deal.

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I chaperone on field trips- we have to have background checks. But I will say, it is crazy. We do get assigned a group of kids to keep after and are stuck on our own. I volunteered in Kindy and i was really surprised how it was run. I ahd kids I had never seen before and they would take off. Keeping 5 kids together for a couple hours was harder than I thought. This year in 1st grade it was easier- kids listened better and I was more prepared! But they still ran ahead adn tried to climb things they shodlnt be on and trying to keep up with them and carrying all their bags and coats and trying to keep the one lagging behind up with the rest of the group- its exhausting!

I agree it makes me a little uncomfortable that a parent I dont know if in charge of watching my dd out in the general public- which is why i volunteer- but it wouldnt make me keep her from going. And it doesnt matter to me if it is a male or female watching her.

It's attitudes like this that actually made me a little nervous for dh when he was a cub scout den leader last year. Their rule is that an adult (of any gender) should never be alone with a child. However it was a small town, everyone knows everyone, yada, yada, yada, and I saw that rule being ignored on occassion. But attitudes like OP is why I made it very clear to dh that in order to protect himself he needed to be sure he absolutely always followed the rule.

I have heard a lot of things about this particular dad that contacted me (going through a divorice and seeing what the mom says about him on FB is what is making me think I would not trust this man with my child - not in a sexual predator kind of way).

I am not buying it. Not at all. Why wouldnt you put this in the OP? I think you are trying to find stuff now to make it seem like you arent being all crazy.

FB is the best place to learn about ex's and then decide they are mot good enough.

Now about the other stuff. 1. I would be more worried about anyone driving my kid on a field trip. 2. Where men are more likely to be sexually abusive women are more likely to be physical like hitting a child. What do you think would happen more likely on a trip? Women are not wonderful because of their magical vagina.